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Theological Theodicy

Author : Daniel Castelo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621893138
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Theological Theodicy written by Daniel Castelo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.

Pathways in Theodicy

Author : Mark S. M. Scott
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451469802
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Pathways in Theodicy written by Mark S. M. Scott and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does God permit evil and suffering? This question, known as the problem of evil in theological and philosophical circles, has perennially vexed Christian theology. Academic studies on the problem of evil, however, have failed to move the conversation forward in recent years. In this volume, designed for students and scholars alike, Mark S. M. Scott traces the major models and motifs in Christian explanations for evil (called theodicies) and argues for a thorough rethinking of the problem of evil and theodicy based on distinctly Christian theological criteria and resources.

The Evils of Theodicy

Author : Terrence W. Tilley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579104304
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)

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Book Synopsis The Evils of Theodicy by : Terrence W. Tilley

Download or read book The Evils of Theodicy written by Terrence W. Tilley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this book is straightforward: Tilley argues that theodicy as a discourse practice creates evils while theodicists ignore or distort classic texts in the Christian tradition, unwittingly efface genuine evils in their attempts to justify God, and silence the voice of the suffering and the oppressed by writing them out of the theological picture. The result is often a theological legitimation of intolerable social evils.

Theodicy

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Theodicy written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.

The Trinity and Theodicy

Author : Jacob H. Friesenhahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317013026
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Trinity and Theodicy written by Jacob H. Friesenhahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This basic question of human existence receives a fresh answer in this book as the mystery of evil is explored in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead human persons into the life of the Trinity are discussed in dialogue with the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In the light of Balthasar's model of the Trinity as divine self-giving love, we gain a profound grasp of the nature of suffering in human life by placing our suffering in the context of the divine life of the Triune God.

Theological Theodicy

Author : Daniel Castelo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086987
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Theological Theodicy written by Daniel Castelo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.

Theodicy in the World of the Bible

Author : Antii Laato
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402626
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Theodicy in the World of the Bible written by Antii Laato and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it justice when deities allow righteous human beings to suffer? This question has occupied the minds of theologians and philosophers for many centuries and is still hotly disputed. All kinds of argument have been developed to exonerate the 'good God' of any guilt in this respect. Since Leibniz it has become customary to describe such attempts as 'theodicy', the justification of God. In modern philosophical debate this use of 'theodicy' has been questioned. However, this volume shows that it is still a workable term for a concept that originated much earlier than is commonly realised. Experts from many disciplines follow the emergence of the theodicy problem from ancient Near Eastern texts of the second millennium BCE through biblical literature, from both Old and New Testament, intertestamental writings including Qumran, Philo Judaeus and rabbinic Judaism.

Deconstructing Theodicy

Author : David Burrell
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1587432226
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing Theodicy written by David Burrell and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Islamic as well as Christian sources, David Burrell provocatively shows that Job does not explain the problem of evil.

God, Power, and Evil

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664229061
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book God, Power, and Evil written by David Ray Griffin and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The baffling age-old question, if there is a good God, why is there evil in the world? has troubled ordinary people and great thinkers for centuries. God, Power, and Evil illuminates the issues by providing both a critical historical survey of theodicy as presented in the works of major Western philosophers and theologians--Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Spinoza, Luther, Calvin, Leibniz, Barth, John Hick, James Ross, Fackenheim, Brunner, Berkeley, Albert Knudson, E. S. Brighton, and others--and a brilliant constructive statement of an understanding of theodicy written from the perspective of the process philosophical and theological thought inspired primarily by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne.

God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering

Author : Bethany N. Sollereder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429881851
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Book Synopsis God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering by : Bethany N. Sollereder

Download or read book God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering written by Bethany N. Sollereder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, theologians were faced with the dilemma of God creating through evolution. Suddenly, pain, suffering, untimely death and extinction appeared to be the very tools of creation, and not a result of the sin of humanity. Despite this paradigm shift, the question of non-human suffering has been largely overlooked within theodicy debates, overwhelmed by the extreme human suffering of the twentieth century. This book redresses this imbalance by offering a rigorous academic treatment of the questions surrounding God and the suffering of non-human animals. Combining theological, philosophical, and biblical perspectives, this book explores the relationship between God and Creation within Christian theology. First it dismantles the popular theological view that roots violence and suffering in the animal kingdom in the fall of humanity. Then, through an exploration of the nature of love, it affirms that there are multiple reasons to suggest that God and creation can both be "good", even with the presence of violence and suffering. This is an innovative exploration of an under-examined subject that encompasses issues of theology, science, morality and human-animal interactions. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars and academics of religion and science, the philosophy of religion, theodicy, and biblical studies.

Raging with Compassion

Author : John Swinton
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334056403
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Raging with Compassion written by John Swinton and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Raging with Compassion", Michael Ramsey prize-winning author John Swinton argues for a practical theodicy, one embodied in the life and practices of the Christian community. This practicality does not seek to provide an explanation for the existence of evil, but rather presents ways in which evil and suffering can be resisted and transformed. This, he insists, will enable Christians to live faithfully with unanswered questions as they await God's redemption of the whole creation. Swinton explores essential practices of redemption - lament, forgiveness, thoughtfulness, hospitality, and friendship - drawing out their implications for the faithful resistance of evil. Enhanced by case studies from current events and by Swinton's own experience as a pastor and mental health nurse, "Raging with Compassion" seeks to inspire fresh Christian responses and modes of practice in our broken, fallen world.

Christian Understandings of Evil

Author : Charlene P. E. Burns
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506418910
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Christian Understandings of Evil written by Charlene P. E. Burns and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings series offers to help. In this exciting volume, Charlene Burns offers a brief but thorough tour through more than two millennia of thought on the nature of evil. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Burns outlines the many ways that Christian thought has attempted to deal with the reality of evil and suffering. From a personal Satan and demonic activity, to questions of free will and autonomy, to the nature of God and God’s role in suffering, Burns offers a clear and compelling overview.

Theodicy and Hope in the Book of the Twelve

Author : George Athas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567695360
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Theodicy and Hope in the Book of the Twelve written by George Athas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the themes of theodicy and hope in both individual portions of the Twelve (books and sub-sections) and in the Book of the Twelve as a whole, as the contributors use a diversity of approaches to the text(s) with a particular interest in synchronic perspectives. While these essays regularly engage the mostly redactional scholarship surrounding the Book of Twelve, there is also an examination of various forms of literary analysis of final text forms, and engagement in descriptions of the thematic and theological perspectives of the individual books and of the collection as a whole. The synchronic work in these essays is thus in regular conversation with diachronic research, and as a general rule they take various conclusions of redactional research as a point of departure. The specific themes, theodicy and hope, are key ideas that have provided the opportunity for contributors to explore individual books or sub-sections within the Twelve, and the overarching development (in both historical and literary terms) and deployment of these themes in the collection.

Theodicy of Love

Author : John C. Peckham
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 149341576X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Theodicy of Love written by John C. Peckham and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God is all powerful and entirely good and loving, why is there so much evil in the world? Based on a close canonical reading of Scripture, this book offers a new approach to the challenge of reconciling the Christian confession of a loving God with the realities of suffering and evil. John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty of God and human freedom, showing that Scripture points toward a framework for thinking about God's love in relation to the world.

The Poetics of Grace: Christian Ethics as Theodicy

Author : Jeph Holloway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621896196
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Grace: Christian Ethics as Theodicy written by Jeph Holloway and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is God doing about a world marked by conflict and division? What about a world in which our technologies promise great good but also threaten our existence? What is God doing in a world where the demands for accumulation and acquisition create division and despair? Can Christians hope to be of positive influence in a world that does not always support, reflect, or even understand Christian commitments? Christian ethics often raises such questions as these, and the possible answers vary widely. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians is a tremendous resource for exploring a faithful response to perhaps the toughest question of all: what is God doing about evil? The role of Christian ethics is to take seriously the challenge that, whatever God is doing, God calls us to participate in a distinctive task that embraces our own commitments and labors within the divine purpose. Ephesians says that God has taken the initiative to pursue that purpose and, remarkably, offers that we ourselves are part of the answer to the question, what is God doing about evil?

Evil and the Evidence for God

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566393973
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Evil and the Evidence for God written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to reconcile the existence of evil with the belief in a benevolent God has long posed a philosophical problem to the system of Christian theism. This work redress this difficulty in modern terms.

Evil and a Selection of its Theological Problems

Author : Benjamin Arbour
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862274
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Evil and a Selection of its Theological Problems written by Benjamin Arbour and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent formulations of the inductive, continual problem of evil require us to consider new responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given the type and amount of evil in the world. Furthermore, fresh approaches to the problem of evil offer suggestive ways to enter a new line of inquiry, in regards to both theistic defences against various articulations of the problem of evil and also theodicy. Finally, developments in contemporary theology, especially analytic philosophical theology, likewise require new treatments of the problem of evil. This volume, on the problem on evil, presents a series of essays that incorporate responses to these developments. The articles fall into three broad sections. The first critiques and examines the analytic, inductive problem of evil on the basis of its modal underpinnings, the discourse of possible worlds, and issues related to hiddenness and vagueness. The second part presents a narrative response to the problem of evil. Its approaches attempt to show the way in which peculiar features of narrative such as dramatic irony, verisimilitude, and distinctions between person-type propositions offer fresh ways to encapsulate our feelings about evil and our response to the theological problems raised by encounters with evil. Such existential concerns are valuable for our thinking about these matters. The third section relates the problem of evil to developments in contemporary analytic theology, such as open theism, idealism and the felix culpa theodicy.